PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man convicted of murdering a couple in their home has been sentenced to death for the fourth time in 22 years.
A jury in the central Oregon city of Bend decided on Thursday that Randy Lee Guzek should be put on death row for the 1987 murders of Rod and Lois Houser.
The 41-year-old Guzek was 18 at the time of the murders. He was convicted the following year and given the death penalty.
The conviction stood for more than 20 years, but the Oregon Supreme Court overturned the death sentence three times on procedural grounds.
Jurors during the fourth sentencing trial were asked to send Guzek to death row or give him life in prison with the possibility of parole when he is 78.
